By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A parade of rabbinical colleagues and family members mourning Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, praised him, which they acknowledged he would have hated, and told jokes about him, which they said he would have loved. The rabbi’s funeral service was attended by hundreds of congregants and friends Friday afternoon in
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I alighted from my pony, and gave him the range of his lariat. I perceived that he preferred a breakfast of fresh grass to the contemplation of the sublime scene around me, to which he seemed totally indifferent. — Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the international conference on Iran currently being held in Warsaw. Netanyahu thanked Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence for pulling together the conference in which “an Israeli prime minister and the
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SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted this reference on a California license plate, leading to speculation that the car’s owner is a music lover. This particular psalm continues with some well known sayings including, “out of the mouth of babes,” and “You have made
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One hundred seven years ago today, on February 14, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation making Arizona the 48th State of the Union. The Republican president may have thought that his signature culminated a long fight with Progressive Democrats in Arizona over the question of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Parashat Terumah, the Israelites are commanded by God to build a mikdash, a sanctuary. The mikdash was supposed to be a home for God that the Israelites could carry with them wherever they went, so that God’s presence would always dwell among
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Jewish ReligionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Growing up in postwar London I never heard the term ‘Second Generation,’ nor was I aware of it until many years later. In Israel at some point in the 1960s or 1970s there was a discussion, possibly even an argument, as to whether people who had fled Europe before,
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Story by Beth Sarafraz; Photos courtesy of the Lieber family BROOKLYN, New York — When Lola Lieber’s husband, Mechel, was arrested by the Nazis during the Holocaust, she did the unthinkable. Posing as a Gentile, she walked into the Gestapo headquarters and asked to speak to whoever was in charge. She told the receptionist that
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International, Jewish History, USAFirst the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign by Rabbi Evan Moffic, Abingdon Press, Nashville © 2019, ISBN 978-1-5018-7083-5, p. 228 plus notes, $22. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan assured us we “Don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” In the same vein, we don’t need
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.” President Trump responded that Schiff
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Donald H. Harrison, Eva Trieger, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASAN DIEGO — Jeremiah (Jere) Robins, 59, greatly loved by family and friends, passed away on January 16. He was a loving, generous, energetic, gregarious, funny and passionate family man and loyal friend to many. Born in Philadelphia, Jere grew up in Cleveland and settled in San Diego after college. Jere was Chairman & CEO
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By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — CODEX, the Latin word associated with books and paper, meets every two years in Craneway Pavilion, which was the old 1931 Ford Plant in Richmond and the center of war production for the Kaiser Shipyards. It is next to the National Park Service Rosie the Riveter WWII Homefront
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This following column, with a format that is easier to read in a hurry, replaces the Editor’s E-Mail Box. It allows for recognition of members of our community in the diverse roles they play. If you, or a member of the Jewish community whom you know recently did
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent. A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives
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